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Sapphire   /sˈæfaɪər/   Listen
Sapphire

noun
1.
A precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone.
2.
A transparent piece of sapphire that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem.
3.
A light shade of blue.  Synonyms: azure, cerulean, lazuline, sky-blue.
adjective
1.
Of something having the color of a blue sapphire.



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"Sapphire" Quotes from Famous Books



... a good harbor at Double Island—a harbor ringed about with sand-fringed coral, with a sandy bottom which could be seen through the limpid depths of the blue water that was as clear as a sapphire-tinted crystal. And, a short way up from the beach was a line of palms and other tropical plants, while, in a little clearing, near what proved to be a trickling spring, was a rude ...
— The Motor Girls on Waters Blue - Or The Strange Cruise of The Tartar • Margaret Penrose

... of a year that sorting shipping receipts in a dark corner of a warehouse not only failed to accumulate riches but did not even bring the "attentions" which her quiet country home afforded. By dint of long sacrifice she had saved fifteen dollars; with five she bought an imitation sapphire necklace, and the balance she changed into a ten dollar bill. The evening her pathetic little snare was set, she walked home with one of the clerks in the establishment, told him that she had come into a fortune, and was obliged ...
— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams

... being quivered in response to the beauty of this glorious mountain world. The air was wine. She loved the sapphire skies and the warm, lazy, caressing touch of the ...
— The Foolish Virgin • Thomas Dixon

... The bottom of the basin was level as a floor and covered with a luxuriant growth of grass, while in the centre a small lake, clear as crystal, reflecting the blue sky which seemed to rise like a dome from the rocky walls, gleamed like a sapphire in the sunlight. Sheer and dark the walls rose on all sides, but at one end of the basin, where the rocks were more rough and jagged, a silver stream fell in glistening cascades to the bottom, where it disappeared among ...
— At the Time Appointed • A. Maynard Barbour

... hive, at the Turban (which is not in the least like a turban), and at many, many other geysers, hot holes, and springs. Some of them rumbled, some hissed, some went off spasmodically, and others lay dead still in sheets of sapphire and beryl. ...
— American Notes • Rudyard Kipling


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